sincerity and repentance | dramione *VERY SLOW UPDATES*

14 | Tea and chocolate

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Hermione grabs his arm so soft as possible to turn his body in a position where she can see his face clearly. »Draco?« she asks quietly, but she gets no reaction of him. When she is briefly silent, she can hear a quiet and regular breathing, suggesting that he has actually fallen asleep. She doesn't know why, but she smiles slightly before quietly leaving the room to let him rest.

Then tomorrow will probably be the real day of truth...

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Sunlights fill the little apartment in a quiet neighbourhood of London. The whole house probably is still sleeping, but not in this one flat.

In the upstairs apartment with a more or less large terrace, a brunette stands in her open kitchen on the countertop and waits for the well-known "click" to come.

She doesn't know what time it is, but probably very early in the morning. She's very tired if she is honest but she can't sleep anymore. The half night she was thinking about Draco and that she is kinda worried about him and that's why she stood up.

The Gryffindor wasn't in his room anymore after she left it yesterday. She thought it would be better to let him alone so he can sleep good and so she read the rest of the day and then she went to sleep in the evening but her sleep isn't the same after the war than before.

Whenever she closes her eyes and tries to calm down so she can fall asleep she sees the pictures of the persons who died in the war or before and she sees how barbaric they died, she sees things she doesn't want to see at all.

Her thoughts are interrupted by the click of the kettle. Immadiately she is back in reality and takes the kettle to pour the hot water into a cup which is already prepared with a tea bag. The Granger doesn't really know what to do and how to behave.

She hadn't really considered how to deal with Malfoy when she agreed to the deal. The brunette wants to treat him as normal as possible and she hopes he will make this possible for her. She hopes he will not insult her and continue his old ways and that he is at least a little grateful to her for helping him. And that's exactly why she takes the cup and goes in the direction of his room.

Hermione takes a deep breath before she slightly knocks at the door. But she gets no reaction, so she opens the door and looks with a little gaze in the room because she has not the brave to into right away. As she said, she has absolutely no idea how to behave.

Draco is laying on his bed and is position is the same as yesterday. His eyes are half opend and half closed, if she see it right. She doesn't know whether her idea to come in his room soo early was good, but she know he is damn weak in this moment and when she sees him only there on the bed she knows that she can't let him laying there.

So she opens the door as quiet as possible completely and enters the room. Right away she goes to Draco and squats down. And she was right. He seems to be a bit awake but actually he is just still asleep. Hermione doesn't even know whether he recognize her in front of him.

His hair just falls down like they were never styled and there is still dirt in it. His face looks just tired and it seems that he didn't sleep the last days in which he was in azkaban, because the area under his eyes is freaking dark. And again she feel damn sorry for him. She doesn't want to imagine how she would look like if she would be him...

»Draco?«

Her voice is quiet because she doesn't want to scare him and she still doesn't know if he's even aware of it all. But the Gryffindor gets a reaction of him this time. His eyelids flutter slightly and he mumbles something that sounds pretty strongly after her last name. And again she must smile a bit.

Hermione have absolutely no clue why, but he say her last name in a special way. He did it all this years somehow. Draco Malfoy has a special pronounce while he say her name. And even he is damn exhausted now, he still continues with it. And she think that is the thing which make her kinda smile. »You didn't forget my name, I think that's good.« she jokes.

And if she isn't dreaming or something like that, she sees as its corners of the mouth twitch slightly upwards for a short time, but quickly lower again. There is a little silence in which she only looks at him and in which he tries to open his eyes completely, but he isn't really successful. Suddenly she remember the tea and she could hit herself.

How did she forget the reason why she is actually in his room?

»Can you stand up for a little moment, Draco?« Instead of answering, he is trying to get up on his own, but every time he falls back on the mattress. But he doesn't give up. He tries and tries, but he simply hasn't no power in the moment. And the blonde seems to recognize and stops trying without a comment. The brunette sighs. »Wait, I will help you.« she just say and puts the cup of tea, which she actually hold in her hand the whole time, on his bedside table.

Then she grabs him as soft as possible, because she doesn't want to hurt him. The Slytherin seems to understand what she want to do, so he tries to help her with balancing his weight in the right position. And finally he sits on his bed. »I made a cup of tea, so you get something to drink for this moment. I hope the flavour mint is okay.« she says, because she hates silence.

He only nods slightly. Hermione takes the cup and holds it careful to his lips so he can drink. She is happy that he is able to drink, because she wouldn't know what she should do if he wasn't able to drink something on his own. After he finished drinking she puts the cup again on the bedside table and grabs the bar of chocolate which she forgot yesterday in his room.

The brunette breaks a piece of it, then she opens his hand and lays the piece of chocolate. »Eat this. You will feel better after that. Harry ate chocolate too after he was attacking by a dementor. It will give you some power.« The Slytherin only nods again and tries to raise his arm to eat the chocolate, but he is too weak and can not make it. The Granger immediately notices and gently grabs his arm and helps him put the piece of chocolate in his mouth and eat it.

After that she helpes him to lay down again. »You should sleep now, Draco. I will come later again, okay?« His eyes flutter but she gets no answer, so she leave the room.

Wow, that was...easy.

Maybe too easy?